Reads microdata for the EPA as provided by the INE

Description

This function reads the microdata file for the "Encuesta de Poblaci'on Activa", EPA, survey in Spain.

Usage

epa2005( epa.file )

Arguments

Details

This function reads microdadata files for the quarterly Encuesta de Poblaci'oon Activa survey by the Spanish Statistical Office, INE. The survey data can be downloaded from http://www.ine.es/prodyser/micro_epa.htm.

It can only read the files for the surveys from 2005 onwards. Previous files have a different, non compatible, format.

Value

A dataframe.

Author(s)

Carlos J. Gil Bellosta

References

http://www.ine.es/prodyser/micro_epa.htm

Examples

# This command reads a few lines sampled from the EPA for the 1Q 2011
sample.epa.data <- epa2005(system.file( "extdata", "sampleEPA0111.txt", package = "MicroDatosEs") )

Results

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> library(MicroDatosEs)
Loading required package: memisc
Loading required package: lattice
Loading required package: MASS

Attaching package: 'memisc'

The following objects are masked from 'package:stats':

    contr.sum, contr.treatment, contrasts

The following object is masked from 'package:base':

    as.array

Loading required package: Hmisc
Loading required package: survival
Loading required package: Formula
Loading required package: ggplot2

Attaching package: 'Hmisc'

The following objects are masked from 'package:memisc':

    %nin%, html

The following objects are masked from 'package:base':

    format.pval, round.POSIXt, trunc.POSIXt, units

> png(filename="/home/ddbj/snapshot/RGM3/R_CC/result/MicroDatosEs/epa2005.Rd_%03d_medium.png", width=480, height=480)
> ### Name: epa2005
> ### Title: Reads microdata for the EPA as provided by the INE
> ### Aliases: epa2005
> ### Keywords: manip
> 
> ### ** Examples
> 
> # This command reads a few lines sampled from the EPA for the 1Q 2011
> sample.epa.data <- epa2005(system.file( "extdata", "sampleEPA0111.txt", package = "MicroDatosEs") )
Error in `$<-.data.frame`(`*tmp*`, "valor", value = """") : 
  replacement has 1 row, data has 0
Calls: epa2005 -> create.spss.vals -> $<- -> $<-.data.frame
In addition: Warning messages:
1: In read.table(file.start.end, header = T, sep = "\t", ...) :
  invalid input found on input connection '/home/ddbj/local/lib64/R/library/MicroDatosEs/metadata/epa_mdat1.txt'
2: In read.table(file.start.end, header = T, sep = "\t", ...) :
  incomplete final line found by readTableHeader on '/home/ddbj/local/lib64/R/library/MicroDatosEs/metadata/epa_mdat1.txt'
3: In read.table(file.type, header = T, sep = "\t", ...) :
  invalid input found on input connection '/home/ddbj/local/lib64/R/library/MicroDatosEs/metadata/epa_mdat2.txt'
4: In read.table(file.type, header = T, sep = "\t", ...) :
  incomplete final line found by readTableHeader on '/home/ddbj/local/lib64/R/library/MicroDatosEs/metadata/epa_mdat2.txt'
5: In read.table(file, header = T, sep = "\t", ...) :
  invalid input found on input connection '/home/ddbj/local/lib64/R/library/MicroDatosEs/metadata/epa_mdat1.txt'
6: In read.table(file, header = T, sep = "\t", ...) :
  incomplete final line found by readTableHeader on '/home/ddbj/local/lib64/R/library/MicroDatosEs/metadata/epa_mdat1.txt'
7: In read.table(file, header = T, sep = "\t", ...) :
  invalid input found on input connection '/home/ddbj/local/lib64/R/library/MicroDatosEs/metadata/epa_mdat2.txt'
8: In read.table(file, header = T, sep = "\t", ...) :
  incomplete final line found by readTableHeader on '/home/ddbj/local/lib64/R/library/MicroDatosEs/metadata/epa_mdat2.txt'
Execution halted